Background
Wood was born in Selma, Alabama on August 21, 1922 to Milton Wood, Senior and Roberta Hawkins Wood.
Wood was born in Selma, Alabama on August 21, 1922 to Milton Wood, Senior and Roberta Hawkins Wood.
He attended the University of the South, receiving his bachelor"s degree and later his Master of Divinity, graduating in 1945.
Bishop Carpenter of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama ordained him as a deacon in 1945, and later as a priest in 1946. In 1949, Milton Wood married Ann Scott. In 1963, Bishop Randolph Royall Claiborne, Junior. of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta called Father Wood to serve as Canon to the Ordinary.
In 1967 he was elected Bishop Suffragan to assist Bishop Claiborne.
He retired in 1984 and died in 2015 at Montgomery, Alabama at the age of 92. Consecrators
Charles C. J. Carpenter, 6th Bishop of Alabama
Randolph Royall Claiborne, Junior., 5th Bishop of Atlanta.